Staunch Oxford comma supporter here! I absolutely see how that sentence can be ambiguous, but I don't think that's a problem with the Oxford comma. If you invited two people because your mother was your first Spanish teacher, then the sentence could have simply been rearranged for clarity: "I invited my neighbor and my mother, my first Spanish teacher, to the language festival."
I'd be very interested in finding cases where reordering wouldn't help, though!
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Staunch Oxford comma supporter here! I absolutely see how that sentence can be ambiguous, but I don't think that's a problem with the Oxford comma. If you invited two people because your mother was your first Spanish teacher, then the sentence could have simply been rearranged for clarity: "I invited my neighbor and my mother, my first Spanish teacher, to the language festival."
I'd be very interested in finding cases where reordering wouldn't help, though!
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